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Subject: Dialog Director v0.7 - A FREE Scripting Addition
Dialog Director is a scripting addition that extends AppleScript and other
OSA compatible languages on any computer running Mac OS 7 or later. It
provides a rich set of features that allow you to create advanced and
dynamic dialog boxes and floating windows directly from within your
AppleScript scripts. This gives you the ability to extend & customise an
application's user interface and to write applets, droplets, embedded
scripts and assistants with the power to interact with your users in a
fast, friendly, effective and professional manner.
Dialog Director is *FREE*. You may redistribute Dialog Director to anyone
as long as you include the complete, unaltered, Dialog Director package and
do not charge for it.
Dialog Director includes support for 7 window styles, global and
application specific floating windows, push buttons, check boxes, radio
buttons & groups, standard & editable pop-up menus, scrolling text and icon
lists, static text items, text & password fields, rectangular frames &
separators, pictures & icons, colour pickers, progress bars & barber poles,
four kinds of icon button, four kinds of transparent polygon button and a
QuickTime movie controller item.
Features include standard or greyscale appearance, automatic and live
dialogs, structured font specs, dialog item dependencies, up to 7 dialogs
within dialogs, push button action scripts, get & set dialog & item
properties, create & delete dialogs & items in any open dialog, up to 32K
of text in text/password fields & static text items, full support for
extended keyboards in text fields & lists.
It also includes over 60 fully working example scripts and applets (with
full AppleScript source code) including:
* DD Connect To... - a 'Connect To...' that keeps a list of your favourite URLs
* FMP Browser - A floating palette for FileMaker providing navigation
* HTML Palette - A palette for ClarisWorks supplying HTML tag insertion
* Dialog Dumper - An applet that generates DD scripts from ResEdit dialogs
* SuperCT2 - A droplet that change creators and/or types of multiple files
And:
* Extensive documentation ~40 pages
* Resource Utilities v1.1b1 scripting addition
More information is also available at Dialog Director's home page:
Support is available form the author via email at the address below.
Happy Scripting,
CHRIS